A mountainous peninsula surrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean Seas.
What is Greece?
100
This person began as king of Macedonia but eventually conquered all of Greece and from northern India to Egypt.
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
This type of Greek column was the simplest, wide with no decoration.
What are Doric columns?
100
This is an independent city which controls some land around itself such as Athens, Corinth, or Sparta.
What is a city-state?
100
He was king of the Greek gods.
Who is Zeus?
200
This was difficult inside Greece so city-states used the seas to do this with places outside of Greece.
What is trade?
200
This person was the blind poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
200
This fifty year period of power, prosperity, and learning in Athens during the second half of the 5th century BCE began with the end of the Persian Wars and ended with the Peloponnesian War.
What is the Athenian Golden Age?
200
This is a type of government created in Athens by Cleisthenes where all citizens voted directly on government business.
What is democracy?
200
These people made up 1/4 of Athens' population but could not vote.
Who were slaves?
300
This type of trade involved exchanging goods or services instead of paying for goods or services with coins/money.
What is the barter system?
300
This person a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of modern Western thought. We know about him through his student, Plato.
Who is Socrates?
300
This describes the influence of Greek culture and values spread around the Mediterranean by Alexander the Great.
What is Hellenism?
300
This city-state was the primary military power on land in Ancient Greece.
What is Sparta?
300
These people invented the alphabet later adopted by the Greeks.
Who are the Phoenicians?
400
This crop could be eaten or pressed into oil for a wide variety of uses. It grows well in the dry, rocky soil of Greece.
What is the olive?
400
This person is known as "the father of history" and recorded much of what we know about Ancient Greek history, especially the Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus?
400
Ancient Greeks used this technique to grow olives and other crops on steep hills and mountainsides.
What is terrace farming?
400
This was a 27-year war between Athens and Sparta which resulted in the decline of Athens.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
400
These people were a relatively advanced civilization who lived on the island of Crete from about 2700-1450BCE.
Who are the Minoans?
500
These were Greek settlements spread from southern France to western Turkey, used for trade and to find better farmland.
What are colonies?
500
This person taught Alexander the Great and was also a major influence on Western thought.
Who is Aristotle?
500
This epic poem written by Homer describes the journey home of Odysseus after the Trojan War and is one of the oldest works of Western literature.
What is The Odyssey?
500
Only free males could be these in Ancient Greece.
What are citizens?
500
A young boy in this city-state would study math, music, literature, and science before beginning military training around 18 years old.